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Meredith's two choices are often reflected in the two to three dialogue options you have with characters. Quite early on, it establishes that at the end of Meredith's fourteen days, you will need to make a big decision: go back to your life and career in the city with a multimillion-dollar company, or change pace and stay in Providence Oaks, reconnecting friendships and searching for love. Lake is more focused on community, relationships and self-discovery. This isn't Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, nor does it need to be. The remote town only being able to pick up one radio station comprised of chilled out local country tunes is a reasonable explanation for the lack of new wave, synth or pop icons blasting the airwaves.

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Seeing the VHS rental store and its collection of movie pun posters and tapes like Back to the Present, Ghostblasters, Nineteen Candles, or Blade Jogger made me feel nostalgic, and I instantly recalled fond memories of visiting these stores and raiding the weekly sections growing up.ĭespite the tape store and a reference to the Challenger spacecraft, no outstanding touchstones scream that Lake takes place in the 80s. She is a quirky cinephile that recommends movies and is playful and even flirtatious. My favourite character was Angie, the owner of The Flick Shack, the towns video store. Characters range from the old cat lady Mildred Jenkins the secluded lumberjack in the woods, Robert Jack, the farmer who doubles as the towns radio DJ and Meredith's childhood best friend, Kay. Thankfully the cast of personalities is great and easily identifiable. It's a job, and it is supposed to be work, but it felt more of a chore than it needed to be and a roadblock towards the exciting interactions. The mundane drop-offs that didn't involve character interactions quickly became repetitive and tedious, even after just four days had passed from the fourteen-day in-game timeframe. The relationships you develop and the interactions you have with them is Lakes biggest strength. It's during these deliveries you encounter a cast of interesting characters from the town. Some deliveries can be as simple as parking up and dropping an envelope into a letterbox, whilst others involve grabbing a package from the back of the truck and delivering it to one's residence or business.

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Each day you are tasked with delivering several envelopes and packages, with no time limits or set routes, leaving you free to navigate the various locations around the towns gigantic and beautiful iconic lake. She plans a two-week break to return to her small country hometown of Providence Oaks, Ohio, helping fill in for her father, the town's postal delivery person. She works late nights, even missing out on important planned social events thanks to the demanding nature of her career.

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A 40-something MIT graduate software programmer who lives in the city. Lake takes place on September 1st 1986, and you play as Meredith Weiss. Questions and challenges Lake also made me ask myself. Through its story, Netherland based developer, Gamious, challenges its main character to decide what she values most and what type of life she wants to live. It could have been establishing a job or career, studying, finding love, understanding yourself better as a person or knowing what is important and what you value-using those experiences to finally 'start living'. The idea is that by 40, the harder stuff should be over. However, I finally understand the sentiment as I am now half past 30 and approaching said age with infinitely more wisdom than younger me. We have all heard the phrase, 'life begins at 40.' It's a saying I used to roll my eyes and scoff at, imaging ageing people in denial, trying to trick themselves into thinking the best is yet to come, so they don't have to dwell on lost youth.